(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855805734)
Explores the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds.The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism, an interdisciplinary...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855807127)
Explores the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds.The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism, an interdisciplinary...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317683964)
Early Sources of the Jaina Tradition reconstructs the history of the early Jaina tradition through a close study of the available textual sources. It focuses on Parsvanatha, one of the 24 Jinas that are identified by the Jaina tradition as its main r...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Nov-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781317683957)
Early Sources of the Jaina Tradition reconstructs the history of the early Jaina tradition through a close study of the available textual sources. It focuses on Parsvanatha, one of the 24 Jinas that are identified by the Jaina tradition as its main r...Loe edasi...
Patrick Felix Krüger, Marion Frenger, Christopher Jain Miller
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040451144)
This book is a multi-faceted, thorough, and yet compact introduction to Jainism. It presents the history and scripture of Jainism, a religion that originated in ancient India and still exists today.A work of primarily philological nature, giving a cl...Loe edasi...
Patrick Felix Krüger, Marion Frenger, Christopher Jain Miller
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040451090)
This book is a multi-faceted, thorough, and yet compact introduction to Jainism. It presents the history and scripture of Jainism, a religion that originated in ancient India and still exists today.A work of primarily philological nature, giving a cl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Oct-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, ISBN-13: 9789004753303)
Through an analysis of archaeological and literary data, this book ex plores two interrelated themes: the socio-economic and cultic processes that resulted in the decline of Indian Buddhism in its last strongholds - Bihar and Bengal - towards the end...Loe edasi...
Por vez primera se presenta al pĆŗblico de habla castellana una monografĆa dedicada Ćntegramente a una religiĆ³n fascinante, pero apenas conocida fuera del Sur de Asia: el jainismo. Se trata de una tradiciĆ³n milenaria, de una riqueza y profundidad...Loe edasi...
In einer Welt voller Konflikte und Herausforderungen bietet der Jainismus mit seiner Philosophie der Gewaltlosigkeit (Ahimsa) einen faszinierenden Weg zu innerem und ƤuĆerem Frieden. Sarah L. Vogel lƤdt Sie auf eine inspirierende Reise in die Tief...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691265780)
The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand yearsFrom its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial ritua...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691265780)
The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand yearsFrom its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate sacrificial ritua...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040292129)
The Indian religion of Jainism, whose central tenet involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the worlds oldest and least-understood faiths. Dundas looks at Jainism in its social and doctrinal context, explaining its history, sects, scriptur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040288740)
The Indian religion of Jainism, whose central tenet involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the worlds oldest and least-understood faiths. Dundas looks at Jainism in its social and doctrinal context, explaining its history, sects, scriptur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Oct-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197549902)
Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tantra, whether in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tibet, or Japan, has tended to emphasize the antinomian, decadent as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Oct-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197549896)
Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tantra, whether in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Tibet, or Japan, has tended to emphasize the antinomian, decadent as...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520377813)
Is a total renunciation of clothing a prerequisite to attaining spiritual liberation? In Gender and Salvation, Padmanabh S. Jaini brings to light previously untranslated texts centering on a centuries-old debate between the two principal Jaina sects,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Feb-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438496634)
Argues that ancient yantra (robot) tales reveal how their Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain authors thought about the nature of humanity and our role in a cosmos filled with divine and natural forces.Winner of the 2025 Award for Excellence in the Study of Re...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2024, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781003817321)
This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to, what Kant would call, practical reason -...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781003817390)
This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to, what Kant would call, practical reason -...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Wipf and Stock Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781666780284)
Studying Torah can be difficult for anyone. Finding meaning and relevance in an ancient text can be daunting. The authors hope is that these short teachings will be both meaningful and easy to study in a short period of time. Divided according to th...Loe edasi...
Purushottama Bilimoria, Cogen Bohanec, Rita D. Sherma
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781000918281)
This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions a...Loe edasi...
Purushottama Bilimoria, Cogen Bohanec, Rita D. Sherma
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781000918335)
This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions a...Loe edasi...
This book presents a substantive yet accessible introduction to the modern thought of Jainism. It examines the life and thought of some of the most influential 19th and 20th-century Jain ascetic leaders that remain little known in the Western world....Loe edasi...
This book presents a substantive yet accessible introduction to the modern thought of Jainism. It examines the life and thought of some of the most influential 19th and 20th-century Jain ascetic leaders that remain little known in the Western world....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781000901085)
This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvarthadhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way. The book also includes the first En...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781000900965)
This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvarthadhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way. The book also includes the first En...Loe edasi...
Der Jainismus ist wie der Buddhismus vor rund 2500 Jahren entstanden und eine der kleineren Religionen Indiens ā zu seinen zentralen Lehren gehƶren Gewaltlosigkeit (ahiį¹sÄ), Respekt vor allen Lebewesen und Toleranz gegenĆ¼ber Andersdenkenden. W...Loe edasi...
Auf der Grundlage von umfangreicher ethnografischer Feldforschung in Grobritannien, den USA und Belgien sowie der Analyse einer Vielzahl digitaler Quellen stellt dieser Band das Digitale und die Diaspora als getrennte, aber miteinander verflochtene G...Loe edasi...
Ramin Jahanbegloo develops the concept of compassion as a practical and ethical response to the problems of todays world. Examining the power of compassion through the lens of multiple world religions, he explores ahimsa in Buddhism, Jainism and Hin...Loe edasi...
